AlchemistCamp

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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
> "Move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our US content review to Texas. This will help remove the concern that biased employees are overly censoring content." - like people being in Tex
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
Ads in and of themselves don't mean a browser isn't privacy-focused. In fact the most privacy focused one I can think of, Duckduckgo, is monetized by ads. All of Duckduckgo is. They're just not personalized.
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
That's because in NYC, you'll get run over if you're not assertive.
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
> We won't re-teach linear algebra to a developer applicant but we will pay a tech writer to go to school nights/weekends to get a degree in engineering (me, I did that). Do you consider developer applicants who learned linear
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
I think they punish companies to a considerable degree. It's just that since legal costs on both sides are non-trivial, not much makes it to the harmed consumers.
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
Why are you trying so hard to market your 9 year-old's project on multiple aggregators and leaning on his age to do it? As a parent, is fame really something you want for him?
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
At the hardware level, I think the answer is that 3 is closer to e than 2 is. For a software emulation of ternary, I have no idea.
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
I’ve been looking forward to this for a long time! Congrats to you and everyone else who made it happen!
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
That's the key thing I missed. It's nowhere near the deal it was but it's still clearly ahead of DO.
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
I was basing it off of the transfer per instance. Using DO, that transfer limit is pooled, so if you need a lot of bandwidth, the best option was to get a lot of $5/month droplets, which each came with 1TB/month. Looking at their
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
It's now more expensive for bandwidth than Digital Ocean, completely destroying what was its value proposition previously.
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
Few things in this world can stop kids from finding a way to play their favorite video games.
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
It's a bit difficult to tell from your comment what you meant by "Not that it matters much in a car-centric country". Do you mean that Austria is "car-centric"? Or that it isn't? I grew up in America, Colorado
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
There's a pragprog book currently in beta on A/B testing: https://pragprog.com/titles/abtestprac/next-level-a-b-testin...
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
> "This part is a real shame because the US doesn't have vehicles like the Toyota Hilux" Yes! That was the first and only truck (or any car) I've ever owned! It was just called the "Toyota Pickup" in the U
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
Yes. WeChat bootstrapped off of QQ accounts, which were basically like Yahoo or MSN messenger + pages for desktop users.
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
> "I highly doubt any new reactor (that's not already in the planning phase) will come online in the US within the next 10 years." That's a reasonable prediction. The US has essentially regulated new nuclear power p
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
Is that including people who immigrated or only those who grew up there? Your link [0] mentions "residents" throughout, which implies that it's counting Chinese people who moved to Singapore as adults. I've known a decen
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
It's somewhat ridiculous that Singapore is included in the English proficiency index given that is English is one of its four official languages. Not only that, but it's also the privileged official language that all children
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
Early in their careers, even exceptional people face obstacles from gate-keepers. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there have been Germans of similar temperament, credentials and talent as Carmack or Luckey but who struggled much long
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
You're saying this to someone who twice took a 24-hour train from Beijing to Hong Kong to buy an Apple computer for 27% less due to HK not having an additional electronics tax. A lot of my friends in Taiwan used to buy macs in HK for t
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
I am outside of North America and have been for about 3/4 of my adult life. The issue with adding VAT to prices on a forum with people living in a lot of different places is that VAT rates vary greatly from place to place. To get an id
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
I see solar power + batteries + electric vehicles as a big win for the environment, which explains how we arrived at different conclusions.
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
Yes. China has also opened more coal power plants than the rest of the world combined over the past couple of years. It should be clear from these three examples that some regulatory environments are more conducive to rapidly building infra
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
> Nuclear plants take at least 10 years to be build. False. Some are built in under 5 years and many are currently being built on those timelines: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/china-
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
What? There's arguably no person on earth who has done more to slow and eventually reverse climate change.
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
It shouldn't take an entire generation to do this. China's building even more within the next five years: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-08-20/china-app...
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
If you continue reading the sentence, it gets even more bizarre: > it's around €650, including VAT. Whatever taxes and discounts apply to the commenter’s own idiosyncratic situation have nothing to do with the price of the produ
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by AlchemistCamp 2y ago
And so what? Those gatekeepers might not accept a John Carmack or a Palmer Luckey (or Bill Gates or Larry Ellison or Vitalik Buterin, etc, etc), but how many of their certificate-holders have done any comparably significant engineering work
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Russia fines Google twenty decillion dollars(cnn.com)
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